> Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > Your comment that one should use Windows for office work is well taken. It
> > does that quite well, and other OS' feeble attempts at it realy don't compare.
> > That's probably the primary reason for Windows' success.
> That wasn't really Windows, though, that was the Borg assimilating its
> hangers-on. The source of countless lawsuits. One of many reasons
> there's been a tech slump.
You know, I just had a problem to describe to a friend why
MS isn't so bad but still not a real coice if you want to do
professional business. Her tech guy was realy in favour for
MS (he's an MS-whatever-certified) and told her that MS put
a lot effort up to make it at least as good as all the other
OSes and of couse surpassed Unix...
Now, a real neat example did come to my mind: Isn't MS like
one of these 500 parts for 49.95 tool boxes at K/Wall-Mart ?
You realy get the oddest bits you ever seen and a good selection
of tools - tools where each single one costs you 20 bucks if
you buy them at a tool store. Now, would a serious craftsman
ever buy and use this 49.95 tool box ? No. He'll rather spend
ten times the money on a tenth of the tools to buy exactly the
quality he needs for his job.
Now windows _is_ exactly the 49.95 tool box - as long as you
don't know where you want to go today, it's probably a good
investment. But if you have serious business to do, you don't
need all the fancy stuff, just the two or three tools you realy
need.
I don't considere Windows a bad product. Just the other way.
But as jack of all trades your're nowhere realy good (List
members exempted of course :).
Gruss
H.
BTW: I own a real big version of the 49.95 tool box ... and a
few realy expensive tools for the most common jobs.
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Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 15:18:55 BST